Good friend of ours here at FOTG found this quote before Marty and I did, so I thought instead of just stealing the info and claiming it for myself, I'd give credit where credit is due.Read More...
From Brent's email (emphasis added by me):
"He needs to swing some more. I talked to him about that. ... I think a lot of this on-base percentage is taking away some of the aggressiveness of some of the young kids to swing the bat." The "he" Baker is referring to is Joey Votto, though the skipper lumped "three true outcomes" slugger Adam Dunn into the discussion later. Apparently Baker doesn't understand the value of Votto's patience; he's a .385 career on-base performer for his minor league career an approach that was responsible for him registering a .321 batting average and .908 OPS in 24 games of a late-season call-up for the Reds. Votto really doesn't need to change, but allow this to serve as the first official indication that he doesn't quite fall in line with the Baker game plan. It's a very real worry that youngsters might suffer in the Baker regime, and with contact hitter Scott Hatteberg his competition, Votto could by all rights be Triple-A bound.
To quote the Sports Guy...I am without speech.
Go Cubs.
UPDATE:
I forgot to add Marty's response to that email.
Instead of giving my usual disbelief about how this guy just doesn't learn and how much more fun its going to be to watch him do what he does to a team that's not the Cubs, I'll give you a quote from Baker that was in another article I read about him this spring:
Baker said he sometimes sits in his office staring into space, pondering and pontificating over things of this nature, "And sometime I just sit here and nothing comes."
Truer words were never spoken.
Go Cubs.
I was going to put this quote from Dusty Baker (And subsequent analysis from ESPN.com) in the comments section of the blog, but I didn't think enough people would see it. To make it more fun for you the reader, please envision Marty's face and subsequent reaction as Dusty explains essentially "why walks clog bases":
"He needs to swing some more. I talked to him about that. ... I think a lot of this on-base percentage is taking away some of the aggressiveness of some of the young kids to swing the bat." The "he" Baker is referring to is Joey Votto, though the skipper lumped "three true outcomes" slugger Adam Dunn into the discussion later. Apparently Baker doesn't understand the value of Votto's patience; he's a .385 career on-base performer for his minor league career an approach that was responsible for him registering a .321 batting average and .908 OPS in 24 games of a late-season call-up for the Reds. Votto really doesn't need to change, but allow this to serve as the first official indication that he doesn't quite fall in line with the Baker game plan. It's a very real worry that youngsters might suffer in the Baker regime, and with contact hitter Scott Hatteberg his competition, Votto could by all rights be Triple-A bound.
To quote the Sports Guy...I am without speech.
Go Cubs.
UPDATE:
I forgot to add Marty's response to that email.
Instead of giving my usual disbelief about how this guy just doesn't learn and how much more fun its going to be to watch him do what he does to a team that's not the Cubs, I'll give you a quote from Baker that was in another article I read about him this spring:
Baker said he sometimes sits in his office staring into space, pondering and pontificating over things of this nature, "And sometime I just sit here and nothing comes."
Truer words were never spoken.
Go Cubs.
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